Quotes with misery

  • One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
  • Mistrusts sometimes come over one's mind of the justice of God. But let a real misery come again, and to whom do we fly? To whom do we instinctively and immediately look up?
  • Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for more.
  • Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.
  • To be a man is to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world.
+2

Quotes 1 till 20 of 93.

1 2 3 4 5 Next 
  • Erica Jong Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
    Erica Jong
    American author (1942 - )
    - +
    +2
  • William Shakespeare Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
    - +
    +2
  • Joseph Addison That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
    - +
    +2
  • Andrew Young Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for more.
    Andrew Young
    Amercan activisit and minister (1932 - )
    - +
    +1
  • Joseph Addison Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
    - +
    +1
  • William Cobbett Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.
    William Cobbett
    British journalist (1763 - 1835)
    - +
    +1
  • Albert Einstein If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
    - +
    +1
  • Rohinton Mistry If there was an abundance of misery in the world, there was also sufficient joy, yes - as long as one knew where to look for it.
    Faceboek (2016)
    Rohinton Mistry
    Indian-born Canadian writer (1952 - )
    - +
    +1
  • Matthew Arnold Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
    Matthew Arnold
    British critic and poet (1822 - 1888)
    - +
    +1
  • William Shakespeare There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound by shallows and in misery.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
    - +
    +1
  • Joseph Addison A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
    - +
     0
  • Henry Wheeler Shaw About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.
    Henry Wheeler Shaw
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
    - +
     0
  • Aldous Huxley Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
    - +
     0
  • Bhagat Singh By Revolution, we mean the ultimate establishment of an order of society which may not be threatened by such breakdown, and in which the sovereignty of the proletariat should be recognized and a world federation should redeem humanity from the bondage of capitalism and misery of imperial wars.
    As quoted in Bhagat Singh and His Ideology
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
    - +
     0
  • H. Jackson Brown Jr Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
    H. Jackson Brown Jr
    American author (1940 - 2021)
    - +
     0
  • James Fenimore Cooper Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery.
    James Fenimore Cooper
    American writer (1789 - 1851)
    - +
     0
  • Bertrand Russell Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
    - +
     0
  • Boethius For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
    Boethius
    Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher (480 - 524)
    - +
     0
  • Voltaire He who doesn't have the spirit of his time, has all its misery.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
    - +
     0
  • Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington I always say that, next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.
    Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington
    Irish military leader and statesman, defeated Napoleon (1769 - 1852)
    - +
     0
1 2 3 4 5 Next 
All misery famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com

Popular subjects

Popular authors